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Re: Ideas for Lego Chipper?
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:52:53 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Nathan Bell wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, Nathan Bell wrote:
> > As soon as my current projects are done, or maybe even sooner than that I wanted
> > to design a Lego Chipper as a final project for a while. The problem is that
> > Legos can't cut wood. I have thought about using store-bought razor blades for
> > the cutting and don't know what to do for the chop block and the massive wheel
> > the blades are mounted on. Chippers are an amazingly complicated piece of
> > machinery as well as very dangerous. After the blade cuts the wood, the pieces
> > go through a slot that is angled up and then there is a flat piece mounted
> > behind the slot that chucks them up through the chute. To complicate that,
> > there is a wheel that feeds the log into the blades that is hydraulically driven
> > and regulated by a sensor that detects any major decrease in blade RPMs. I
> > don't know the proper names of most of these parts, but I hope the reader is not
> > confused to the point of pulling their hair out and screaming. Of course, that
> > would still be less painful than going through a chipper! This design should
> > probably be constructed in a way that does not dismember any fingers.
> >
> > Nathan
>
> Sorry if I got carried away with the gory details in that last message.
Correction: The wheel the blades are mounted on would not be Lego either. Based
on the feedback the last post got, I sould probably make on that just shreads
food such as long straight pretzels. All I really care about is that it can
shread chocolate for cakes or cheese for pizza. That way it could have a use
besides fun. It could dice vegetables for a salad.
It probably would not be wise to reveal too many secrets so that no children
will try to build it. It is just like a gun. Guns are not bad or good, but
they can be used for bad and children above all people should not have them.
I may decide to use cut aluminum sheets stacked on top of one another (each with
a slightly different location for the hole behind the blade that the chips fly
through. That way the blades could be soldered to the aluminum (That is
possible; isn't it?), and if they wore out, that slice could be replaced along
with the blades.
Who knows, maybe a salad shooter has the necessary parts to integrate with Lego!
However, I am so busy these days that it is doubtful if I will ever find time to
make this thing!
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